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I think it'll be a gradual change. We already have assisted parallel parking, and the cameras are getting more advanced (multiangle, bird's eye view, etc.). Automated braking systems will evolve, and eventually your brakes will be engaged for you. This will get people "used" to feeling their cars automatically brake. Soon after you'll have "local" self driving spots where you might pull into McDonald's and have the ADC take over in a relatively safe, confined area. Then it'll move to highways where cars are (more or less) all doing the same thing anyway.
It'll be slow enough people won't fear it, they'll just get used to it.
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Re: self driving cars and Asimov's Laws [Re: CosmicFool]
#22451019 - 10/29/15 08:31 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Going off the way that capitalism works, probably the person that owns the robot would be saved rather than the 10 civilians. I mean, if the technology is sophisticated enough, then I am sure it would be programmed to protect its owner before protecting others.
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Re: self driving cars and Asimov's Laws [Re: CosmicFool]
#22742574 - 01/06/16 01:38 AM (8 years, 25 days ago) |
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CosmicFool said:
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LeningradCowboy said: "Through inaction, allow human being to come to harm."
What I'm saying is that robot does not allow the scenario to happen
in a perfect situation the robot would be able to identify and avoid this situation entirely but robotics/ai is in it's infancy and a long way from perfect if it processes the information too slow, it's sensors are inadequate, there is a bug/malfunction, or unusual conditions (rain, snow, ice, tornados, etc) than mistakes can happen
it's all a backup fail safe the plan b
not to mention the only way a robot will obey Asimov's law is if it's programed to
Just to revive this thread, Nvidia recently announced making quite large strides in terms of the AI required to handle things like this.
The intimidatingly named Drivenet, where they propose having actively learning cars on the road connected via the cloud, constantly updating each other with newly learned information and scenarios.
They have apparently released a supercomputer that companies are presently using to make self-driving cars.
90 second summary of their presentation at CES this year:
Will not link everything from their presentation, but all 9 parts can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/nvidia/videos
Videos 1-4/5 are focused on the recent strides made in terms of recognition and everything.
There was some really interesting accomplishments that they discussed, such as the recognition software now being at the point that in situations like snow the computer can identify and track vehicles that may not be readily visible to the human eye. It also continually maps and records the car's position in 3d space, so it is simultaneously taking in data from all points rather than sequentially checking areas like the human visual field.
Not to say that this immediately answers the issue presented in the OP, but generally the effort seems to be to make a system robust enough to prepare for and prevent such risks.
Found the presentation interesting, thought you may as well.
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Re: self driving cars and Asimov's Laws [Re: Tantrika]
#22742890 - 01/06/16 06:11 AM (8 years, 25 days ago) |
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great not only can machines start thinking for themselves but now they have a hive mind too
I guess I better start learning binary so that I can take orders from my new robot masters
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